Ordinance - 1890ORDINANCE NO. 1890
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL
CODE, CHAPTER 26, AS IT RELATES TO THE TEMPORARY USE
PERMIT PROVISIONS FOR AUTO DEALERSHIP PROMOTIONAL
EVENTS (AMENDMENT NO. 242).
• WHEREAS, the City received requests to review the current
provisions for temporary use permits for auto dealership
promotional events; and
WHEREAS, the City Council considered these requests in light
of the historical development of these provisions and requirements,
and possible impacts associated with any changes thereto; and
WHEREAS, in light of the current economic recessionary period,
the City Council on April 8, 1991, adopted Resolution No. 8671
directing staff to proceed with studies and investigations for a
possible code amendment relating to the temporary use permit
provisions for 'auto dealerships, to be considered at a duly noticed
public hearing before the Planning Commission; and
WHEREAS, staff conducted field studies and surveys of how
automobile dealership promotional events in other communities
compare with respect to balloon display, banners, roof -mounted
tethered balloons and special temporary use permit procedures; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission upon giving the required
notice, did on the 18th day of September, 1991, conduct a duly
advertised public hearing as prescribed by law; and
WHEREAS, the oral and documentary evidence considered in
connection with the code amendment reveal the following facts:
1. The General Plan of the City of West Covina maintains as one
of its policies the preservation and strengthening of West
Covina's existing commercial development, thereby preventing
economic deterioration.
2. The purpose of the temporary use permit provisions is to allow
a temporary use to occur after the City has reviewed and
approved a temporary use permit application; the intent of the
temporary use permit provisions is to assure that the site is
adequate to accommodate the use, and that such use will not
have a substantial adverse effect upon the use, or enjoyment
of property in the neighborhood of the proposed use or upon
the public safety,. health or general welfare.
3. The automobile dealerships' use of roof -mounted cold air
tethered balloons and wall -mounted banners, with an approved
temporary use permit, and which complies with the standards
contained within the temporary use provisions, may attract new
business.
4. In the interest of making the language of the code more
objective and consistent, the City Attorney has indicated the
term "automobile dealerships," as contained in the existing
temporary use permit provisions, be replaced with "uses with
designated outdoor display areas on approved precise plans."
5. In an effort to further streamline the promotional events
process for auto dealerships, the weekend display of
nonmetallic balloons, strung and attached to antennae and
light standards, will not require approval of a temporary use
permit, but shall comply with the standards contained within
the temporary use provisions.
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Amendment 242 TUP Autodealers
October 2, 1991 - Page 2
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina
does ordain as follows:
Section No. 1: Based upon the evidence presented and findings set
forth, Amendment No. 242 is hereby approved as consistent with and
serves to implement the City's General Plan.
Section No. 2: Based upon the evidence presented and findings set
forth, Chapter 26, ARTICLE XI. NONRESIDENTIAL USES is hereby
amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE XI. NONRESIDENTIAL USES
Sec. 26-609.5. Same - Promotional event; autemebile dealership
uses with designated outdoor display areas on
approved precise plans.
(a) The outdoor display sale or dispensing of merchandise or
food, and temporary signs relating thereto, during special
promotional events conducted wholly on private property, may be
permitted for any autemebile dealership a business located on a
seventy-five thousand (75,000) square foot or larger site that has
an approved precise plan designating a minimum of four thousand
(4,000) square feet of the site for "outdoor display" area as
allowed under the provisions of section 26-597 of this chapter.
+e}Ll Seh eves Promotional events may be scheduled by
individual temporary use permits or a single temporary use permit
describing and scheduling the events throughout a calendar year.
The number of days allowed for the type of event is described in
provisions (c) and (d) of this section
(c) The following type of temporary signs shall be permitted
with approval of a temporary use permit:
(1) Unilluminated wall -mounted banner(s) made of cloth vinyl
or canvas, not to exceed a cumulative square footage of one
hundred sauare feet shall be permitted for thirty (30)
consecutive days.
a. Additional temporary use permits can be issued for wall -
mounted banners. The additional permits are limited to
two (2) additional permits in a calendar year, for a
J maximum period of time of twenty-one (21) days per
permit.
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or eight (8) weekends in a calendar year.
a. The fee for the permit shall be paid as
allowed per permit is three (3) days
IV b. Only cold air balloons tethered flush to the roof top are
permitted. Blimp style, character -shaped other
customized balloons and pennant flags attached to the
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Amendment 242 TUP Autodealers
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Planning Director as to design, color, location and any
other considerations that the Planning Director deems
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(d) A temporary use-fle"'.__ =R; t with a-eal endaryear sehedu l e- may
be medified with review and the planning direeter.
include Fridays, and in the case of holiday weekends such as
Memorial and Labor Day, that Monday shall also permit balloon
display. No temporary use permit is required
nelgnt or the strung balloons shall not exceed thirty-five
(351) feet from the around level and shall be appropriately
fastened with guy wires so no part of said display encroaches
upon or overhangs adjacent property or public right-of-way
Section No. 3: It has been determined that this project, which
consists of a minor alteration in land use limitations which does
not result in changes in land use or density, is categorically
exempt pursuant to Section 15305 (Class 5) of the State CEQA
Guidelines and no Environmental Impact Report or Negative
Declaration of Environmental Impact is required.
Section No. 4: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by
law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 28th day of October, 1991.
ATTEST
City_ Clerk
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Amendment 242 TUP Autodealers
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I, Janet Berry, City Clerk of the City West Covina, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1890 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 7th day of October,1991That, thereafter,
said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 28th day of October, 1991 by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Jennings, Herfert, Manners, McFadden
NOES: None
ABSENT: ^Tarozzi
City Clerk'
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City' ttorney—,' VA
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CERTIFICATION
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of West Covina, State
of California, do hereby certify that a true and accurate copy of
Ordinance Nowas published, pursuant to law, in the San
Gabriel Valley Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation
published and circulated in the City of West Covina.
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DATED:
Janet Berry, City Clerk
City of West Covina, California
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